Brown furious over Sarkozy VAT attack

Article reports that Gordon Brown, Britain’s Prime Minister, was left fuming on the 6 February 2009 after Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, denounced his flagship VAT-cutting plan and gave a picture of a Britain where industry was finished and the banks lay 'close to ruin'.

BBC News, 6.2.09: Sarkozy attacks Brown's VAT cut http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7874648.stm

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